Product Description

Someone special, someone dear, someone new to love is here! Bring hours of baby fun home in Baby Pals, a game where you get to do all the fun things real parents do like feeding, bathing, playing with and teaching your baby. If you're a really good parent, your little angel will even love you back...kootchy kootchy koo!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2146 in Video Games
• Brand: Crave Entertainment
• Published on: 2007-11
• Released on: 2007-11-21
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Features

• Tickle, peek-a-boo, and even patty cake with your baby
• Customize your baby's physical appearance, clothes & toys
• Teach your baby to crawl, walk and talk
• Utilize the stylus as a spoon to feed or soap to wash
• Earn items like new toys, cute clothes and accessories for your baby

Customer Reviews

SWEET!!!!!!!!
This game is just adorable! You can choose to adopt a baby girl or boy (features are different according to which you choose). Not only can you select the shape of your baby's nose, eyes, and stomach (chubby or skinny) , but you can also pick the skin, hair and eye color. There is quite the variety of skin tones from extremely light to very dark. The eye color selection is great as well- everything from blue to brown to a very distinct lavender! Various hairstyles and hair colors are available throughout the entire game. The graphics aren't 100% perfect on your simulated baby, but the cuteness factor of this game more than makes up for it.

Not to mention, there are many clothes and items to buy for your baby! Everything from "Anne Geddes-style" baby costumes (flower, teddy bear,...) to even a pirate costume to name a few. The diapers come in different varieties-ie. Plain white, floral, duck, and leopard print. Of course you can purchase more typical clothes-onesies, dresses, pants, overalls, and more. Many toys can be purchased for your baby too. There are balls, stuffed animals, and dolls.

Because this is a baby simulation type game, the game consists of cooking, feeding, bathing, playing, and teaching your baby. Younger game players below the age of about seven might need some help learning how to care for and play with their baby. There is a little reading involved (in the form of brief instructions on how to play some parts of the game). I'm sure once you showed your child how to complete the tasks a couple of times (will not take a lot of your time), that your child will be able to complete the majority of the tasks on their own. The instructions booklet is very thorough, but not overly detailed in case you need more directions. Interacting with your baby is fun, and you get to earn money that way too!

Your baby will age (still a baby though) in this game, but it never "ends." As the game progresses, there are more items added, the games get slightly more difficult, and the meal preparation more complex. A young gamer will still be able to enjoy and play at this level with only a bit of assistance.

Overall, I gave this game 5 stars. It is adorable, fun, and entertaining. My niece (age 9) loves this game. She gave it a 4.5 rating, and this game is #1 on her "Toys To Buy List."

Slightly better than the Imagine Babyz
Slightly better than Imagine Babyz. The graphics, (which are in a way the heart and soul of any video game) were too ambitious for the DS screen as they tried to make them as humanly realistic as possible but they didn't quite succeed in terms of keeping the pixels as straight as possible.

You adopt a baby, your choice of boy or girl. You also create the baby by choosing the eyes and skin color, shape of the belly, eyes and head and finally name him or her.
Tasks are similar to those of Imagine Babyz but the are more realistic especially the cooking session as the baby grows new more complicated recipes appear and your child does eat more. Unlike "Imagine" you can teach your baby colors, how to crawl and then walk and talking.
As the game progress you unlock clothes, costumes, toys and accesories, many tacky or hiedously designed. Again the graphics seem not to hold altogether. You play, feed, change, bathe, put to sleep your baby. The sounds and movements of the infants are as realistic as they can be which makes for the most entertaining part of the game, hearing the child laugh or blow you kisses and cry.
Again like it counterpart you play the entire game by using nothing but the stylus, but you do not have to push the screen to acomplish the tasks given. Several differnt babies can be played with just one game cartridge.Beware that most task do have a time limit marked by a red oval on the lower screen. If the player fails is starting all over again, but is an easy game.

Though aimed at female gamers, I wouldn't mind if my sons or nephews played it to teach them a little about how to care for another life, despite of the grainy graphics is a good simulation game.

So Cute
So much better than Imagine Babyz. I bought two imagine babyz for Christmas presents and they had glitches. But Baby pals is so adorable my granddaughter can't seem to put it down and neither can I. We love it.